The Institute (Unabridged) The Institute (Unabridged)

The Institute (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

2020 THRILLER/SUSPENSE AUDIE AWARD WINNER!

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King whose “storytelling transcends genre” (Newsday) comes “another winner: creepy and touching and horrifyingly believable” (The Boston Globe) about a group of kids confronting evil.

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”

In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.

As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is “first-rate entertainment that has something important to say. We all need to listen” (The Washington Post).

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
NARRATOR
SF
Santino Fontana
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
18:59
hr min
RELEASED
2019
September 10
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster Audio
SIZE
731.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Jangle023 ,

An interesting story.

Very good book. Started listening to put me to sleep, didn’t fall asleep until 2am because I was too interested.

Mike in VB ,

Great story real well

Great story with the usual highly developed characters by King. The reading by Santino Fontana was fabulous!

NYGreg89 ,

Great read

This book is great, and has a bit more of a thriller feel than the traditional Stephen King books. Well worth the read.

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